This flagship publication, System of National Accounts, 2008 (2008 SNA) is the comprehensive statistical framework for economic statistics that provides a consistent and flexible set of macroeconomic accounts for policymaking, analysis and research. It has been produced and is released under the auspices of the United Nations, the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group.

This set of principles and recommendations provides guidance on establishing a functioning system for collecting, processing and disseminating vital statistics; improving sources of vital statistics, primarily the functioning of the civil registration system and its components; and the role of complementary sources of vital statistics, such as population censuses, household surveys and public-health records.

The Handbook provides guidance on the measurement of economic characteristics in population censuses, based on relevant experiences of countries, with a particular focus on the questions used and the requirements for processing of responses.

Electronic notification tool developed by CDP to notify LDCs about sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) and technical barriers to trade (TBT) import requirements of potential and existing trading partners.

This handbook aims to be a practical instrument to enable
parliamentarians around the world to understand indigenous peoples’ rights better and
to provide practical ideas for the implementation of the UN Declaration. It also presents
good practices in relation to the recognition and exercise of indigenous peoples’ rights
in different regions of the world.

The UN Model Convention is a non-binding instrument which aims to provide guidance to countries in designing double tax treaties, as well as in applying and interpreting them. It is developed and updated by the UN Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters, a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council, composed by 25 members from developed and developing countries acting in their personal capacity. The UN Model Convention is formulated to take into account the specific needs of developing countries in designing double tax treaties in line with their own policy framework.